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All Congolese Urged To Vote In Historic Poll
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:16 am | United Nations
As polling stations across the vast reaches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prepare to receive tens of millions of voters on Sunday, a United Nations envoy to the country said that security conditions have been met, as he urged all Congolese ... More >>
Un Aid Chief Calls For Humanitarian Truce
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:13 am | United Nations
The top United Nations aid official today made an urgent appeal for a humanitarian truce lasting at least three days between Israel and Hezbollah to allow children, the wounded and the elderly to escape the fighting and food, medicine and other emergency ... More >>
Somalia: Un Envoy Appeals For Calm
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:10 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Somalia appealed for calm today in the strife-torn African country after gunmen assassinated the country's Minister for Constitutional and Federal Affairs Abdallah Deerow Isaaq outside a mosque, and he announced he will ... More >>
More Than $15 Million Needed To Help Azerbaijan
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:07 am | United Nations
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP) will run out of supplies in a month for more than 130,000 Azerbaijanis displaced by the conflict with neighbouring Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorny-Karabakh unless it receives an urgent injection ... More >>
Joint Un Team To Visit Ethiopia
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:05 am | United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency will lead a joint inter-agency assessment mission on Sunday to remote areas of eastern Ethiopia after recent reports that Somalis have crossed the border, fleeing their strife-torn country following the Union of Islamic ... More >>
UN Team Visits Nepal
Sunday, 30 July 2006, 12:01 am | United Nations
A high-level United Nations team visiting Nepal to explore UN support for the country's peace process today met senior leaders from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and welcomed news that they will extend their ceasefire for another three months. More >>
UN to Send More Emergency Supplies to S Lebanon
Friday, 28 July 2006, 3:58 pm | United Nations
Responding to the increasing humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Lebanon, the United Nations will send two additional convoys of emergency supplies to the south of the country tomorrow, a UN spokesman said, following the successful aid delivery to the ... More >>
Mongolia Sumo Star Becomes UNESCO Artist for Peace
Friday, 28 July 2006, 3:45 pm | United Nations
The professional sumo wrestler known as Hakuho has become the first Mongolian to be designated an Artist for Peace by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in recognition of his work helping young people in ... More >>
Dialogue Needed in Cote D'Ivoire to Smooth Peace
Friday, 28 July 2006, 11:50 am | United Nations
Accelerated progress toward elections in Côte d’Ivoire that was sparked by the summit of regional leaders convened by Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier this month has also brought to the fore tensions that ignited recent violence, which need ... More >>
Call for Israeli Inquiry Into Peackeeper Killing
Friday, 28 July 2006, 11:37 am | United Nations
Voicing its shock and distress at the Israeli Defence Forces’ (IDF) killing of four unarmed United Nations military observers in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, the Security Council today called on the Israeli Government to conduct a full investigation. More >>
Envoy Presses for Resumption of Somali Peace Talks
Friday, 28 July 2006, 11:36 am | United Nations
The senior United Nations envoy to Somalia today wrote to the chairman of the Executive Council of Islamic Courts in the troubled country to reiterate his call for the resumption of peace talks with the Transitional Federal Government, a UN spokesman said. More >>
Iraq, UN Launch Compact for Peace, Reconstruction
Friday, 28 July 2006, 11:35 am | United Nations
The United Nations and the Iraqi Government announced today the formal launch of the International Compact with Iraq, a new partnership with the international community that aims to consolidate peace and pursue political, economic and social development ... More >>
Fighting To Curb Drugs From Afghanistan
Friday, 28 July 2006, 9:10 am | United Nations
In the fight against the heroin trade from Afghanistan, which produces almost all the world’s supply, the United Nations drug agency is joining an international effort to train Afghan and Central Asian enforcement officers, as around one fifth ... More >>
$396.5 Million Paid For Iraq’s Invasion Of Kuwait
Friday, 28 July 2006, 9:09 am | United Nations
The United Nations Compensation Commission, which settles the damage claims of those who suffered losses due to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, today announced the disbursement of about $396.5 million , bringing the total paid out to date to nearly $21 billion. More >>
Refugee Chief In Sri Lanka Calls For Return Home
Friday, 28 July 2006, 9:08 am | United Nations
Sri Lanka’s Government and separatist Tamil Tigers should resume peace talks and create the conditions necessary for more than 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home because they have been enduring a conflict that has lasted ... More >>
Violence in Cote D'Ivoire Condemned
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 11:01 am | United Nations
Decrying the weekend’s deadly outbreak of violence in Côte d’Ivoire, the Security Council today called on all Ivorian parties to play their part to implement commitments made at a meeting convened by Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier this month. More >>
Annan recommends three-pronged Lebanon solution
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 10:29 am | United Nations
Deploring the “horrendous and dangerous” situation in Lebanon, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today proposed a three-part strategy involving an immediate cessation of hostilities and wide-ranging political and economic commitments to solve a crisis ... More >>
Annan Remarks to Conference on Lebanon
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 10:27 am | United Nations
The death and destruction we have witnessed in the past two weeks, including yesterday's tragic killing of UN peacekeepers, compels this conference to send a strong message, and to speak with one voice. We must say, to the people of Lebanon, to the people ... More >>
UN-Israel inquiry into peacekeeper deaths proposed
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 10:25 am | United Nations
Following yesterday’s killings of three United Nations peacekeepers – and possibly a fourth – during an air attack in south Lebanon, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today accepted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s expression of “deep sorrow” ... More >>
UNSG Shocked By Coordinated Israeli Attack on UN
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 3:33 pm | United Nations
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was issued today in Rome: I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a United Nations observer post in southern Lebanon that has killed ... More >>
